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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => HONEYBEE REMOVAL => Topic started by: schawee on July 04, 2011, 12:00:35 pm
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went to the s m a school to check on the hive they have there.after adding a box on the hive i was leaving and notice a lil swarm on a guide wire.the queen took flight.and the tanging started.i got them to land on the box.it was cool seeing the bees in flight and coming down and landing on the box when i was drumming on the bucket.enjoy, ....schawee tanging a swarm at sma school (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok7SiHgzp04#ws)
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How many coonasses it take to catch a queen outta a Barq's root beer box?
One Schawee! :-D
Good job buddy!
...JP
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That was tooo coool, schawee! I'm gonna put a bucket and a stick in my swarm-collection box so I can tang them out of the air.
(And where the heck have you and JP been lately? I miss you two.)
-Liz
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I'll PM you Liz.
...JP
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Good job Schawee!!
sounded like you had the war path Indian drums going there for a minute!! :-D
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gona make a redneck outa you yet; still waiting fo you to pull out yo pistol and clip her in the air
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You are somethin' else! And, like JP says, you are the best 'queen finder.'
I am going downstairs as soon as I finish this post to see if I can find my 20 gallon trash can lid -- I made my extractor from rhe barrel part a dozen years ago. The lid is going into my swarm kit. It ought to be a good "thunder maker."
Mike
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Good job schawee!!
Scott
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Cool video!
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gona make a redneck outa you yet; still waiting fo you to pull out yo pistol and clip her in the air
I was waiting on a eagle eye pistol shot. Guess they would have frowned on that tactic around a school huh?
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Two Questions:
What is a sma school?
Is the drumming on the bucket suppose to make the swarm land?
Larry
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Another good video!!! Thanks and keep them comin.
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Two Questions:
What is a sma school?
Is the drumming on the bucket suppose to make the swarm land?
Larry
http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php/topic,24914.0.html (http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php/topic,24914.0.html)
log swarm @ Bud3.wmv (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_fx4xdlNmY#)
BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)
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Quote; iddee
Years ago, Grandmas everywhere kept a large wooden spoon on the back porch next to the dishpan. When a hive swarmed, she would grab them and stand in the yard banging on the dishpan like a drum until the swarm landed. Anything can be used, as long as it makes a drum like noise. I used my hand on an empty cardboard nuc yesterday. That's all I had handy.
It was known as tanging, or drumming. Now there is another motion that has been dubbed drumming, so most call swarm calling tanging now.
That answers the drumming, but what is a s m a school?
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Sweet video Schawee. Very cool.
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Thanks Schawee that was a nice video and nice catch on that queen. Really nice of you to help out that school and teach the kids about beekeeping.
Thanks for sharing.
Annette
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gona make a redneck outa you yet; still waiting fo you to pull out yo pistol and clip her in the air
Well you know I watched Bud Tang, Macon Mississippi style! :lau:
...JP
How Bud1 use a .22 pistol he say it works
BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)
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glad yall like the video. jp you were half right with the box, it was a barq's box but not rootbeer it was cream soda :-D bud and k9 shooting on school property is a big no no.larry s m a stands for science and math academy.hey bud,i could be the first redneck coonass :-D ....schawee
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Thanks Schawee for explaining the s m a. Larry
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Nice job schawee! I tried tanging this year for the first time and it worked as well. My dad who is 72 years old talks about when he was a kid chasing swarms beating on his moms pots and pans. This was passed from his father down to him. This was the accepted practice to get the bees to move.
I had a swarm land high in a tree well beyond our ladders, and my dad suggested it, so my son and I beat on two cake pans and the bees actually came back to the hive they had swarmed from.
We all stood there looking at each other not really sure of what we just had done :shock:. Dad spoke up and said "See I told you it worked". :-D
Thanks for the video schawee, nice one!
Joe
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We all stood there looking at each other not really sure of what we just had done :shock:. Dad spoke up and said "See I told you it worked". :-D
Joe
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BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)
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Great video Schawee. I've heard other people talk about banging on a pot or kettle and they said the bees will land close. Why do you think that could work? What I mean to ask is, how does that affect the bees, to make them want to land?
Very Cool
Leechmann
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leechmann,from what i read and what other people tried to find out is that no one no what make them land,but they do.they have peolpe that say it doesn't work and its a myth.well i saw it work at but2 when iddee did it and it worked for me.i had to do it with that same hive again when i let the queen out of the queen catcher.that evening they swarmed and would not land after 10 min. so i got my bucket and started to beat on it and they landed in just a short time .myth or not i saw it work, ......schawee
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Nice video Schawee and no you wouldn't be the first Redneck Coonass, I married into a whole family of them! :evil:
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Box-o-bees :lau:
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Well done Schawee. Thought you may have had a yellow bucket in the gear by now but Wally has probably got rights on the color but I think you beat a better rhythm than he does.
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Hey, Geoff.... :-P :-P :-P :-D
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